In recent years, a concept called “vibe coding” has entered our lives. We hear it frequently on social media, YouTube, TikTok, and especially within younger developer communities: “No rules, just vibes.”
Writing code without being constrained by strict architectures, principles, or patterns — following your instincts, experimenting, breaking things, and trying again — can feel incredibly liberating at first glance. It encourages creativity, speeds up learning, and frees people from the pressure of “I must write perfect code.”
However, when it comes to mobile applications, there is also a darker side to this trend. If you look at the App Store or Google Play today, you’ll see countless apps — but many of them are slow, buggy, poorly designed in terms of UX, or built on top of unsustainable codebases.
One major reason for this is that many people start writing code without truly understanding software development, without grasping system architecture, and with a mindset of “if it works, it’s good enough.” The result is crashing applications, projects that are impossible to maintain, terrible mobile performance, and teams that constantly produce new bugs.
At this point, some people have declared war on vibe coding, claiming that “this trend is destroying software quality.” But I want to draw a clear line here: I am not against vibe coding. In fact, I also do it when the moment calls for it.
If I’m trying out a new idea, building a quick prototype, testing a UI flow, or simply seeing how something “feels,” I will absolutely code in a more intuitive, experimental, and less structured way. But the difference is that I don’t do this in a vacuum. Even when I’m vibe coding, I still rely on patterns I’ve seen before, I’m aware of common mistakes, I can anticipate which parts of my code might cause problems later, and — most importantly — I code with the mindset that “I will refactor this later.”
For me, vibe coding is not a product of ignorance; it is a byproduct of experience. I don’t know everything perfectly, I’m still learning, and I still make wrong decisions sometimes. But I’ve seen clearly that real learning doesn’t come just from watching tutorials or just from coding with vibes — it comes from building real projects, making real mistakes, understanding them, and iterating again and again.
Watching something on YouTube is easy. Building it from scratch is a completely different level. Learning how to use a framework is straightforward, but understanding when not to use it can take years. That’s why there needs to be a balance between vibe coding and professional software development.
For beginners, vibe coding is great for exploration, confidence, and creativity. But for teams building real products, discipline, architecture, and quality are still essential. Today’s best mobile development teams don’t operate purely on vibes, nor do they bury themselves in rigid rules — they combine both.
Perhaps this is the real lesson: don’t be completely chaotic, but don’t be a robot either. And to close with the famous line from Kemal Sunal’s Yüz Numaralı Adam:
“In this country, there are right-wingers and left-wingers… but there is no center.”
Maybe software is the same — neither pure vibe nor pure rules. The best approach is knowing when to use each.
